Wagner wasn’t done with us. I was stand… “What are you doing, Chinaski?” “Nothing.” “Nothing?” I didn’t answer.

this is my piano. the phone rings and people ask, what are you doing? how about getting drunk with us? and I say,

there are these small cliffs above the sea and it is night, late night; I have been unable to sleep, and with my car above me

I wait on life like a pregnancy, put the… the gut but all I hear now is the piano slamming its teeth through are… brain

I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made. the woman was dressed

they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it all is.

Beowulf may have killed Grendel and Grendel’s mother but he couldn’t kill this one:

sleepy now at 4 a.m. hear the siren of a white ambulance,

I didn’t do much the rest of the week. The Oaktree meet was on. I went to the track 2 or 3 times, broke even. I wrote a dirty story for a sex mag, wrote 10 or 12 poems, masturbated, and...

I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,

I’ve watched this city burn twice in my lifetime and the most notable event was the reaction of the politicians in the

you shoulda been at this party, I know you hate parties but you seem to be at most of them. anyhow, I took my girl, you know her—

In bed I had something in front of me b… “Sorry, baby,” I said. Then I rolled o… Then something awakened me. It was Vi.… “Go, baby, go!” I told her. I arched my back now and then. She look…